Monday, March 6, 2017

Miracle 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Alrighty so here is our miracle this week. So we set a goal to findone new investigator on Wednesday night and we had an AMAZINGmiracle!! So in the afternoon we went and tracted in this apartmentcomplex for at least 3 hours and we didn't really have any luck, weaccidentally tracted into a member though so that was fun. Afterdinner we decided to go back to the same complex and try some more.Right as we got there (it's on the far west side of our area) ElderWolverton said "actually I think we should go see Cecile". ExceptCecile is on the complete other side of our area!! But I agreedbecause I decided I would trust Elder Wolverton. Once we were almostto Cecile's Elder Wolverton says "actually I think we should go back".I was feeling the same thing so we headed on back. When we got thereElder Wolverton asked if we should start in the 200s or 500s (buildingnumbers). I said 500s and he agreed, so we start tracting. It's about7 o'clock at this point and we are having zero luck, pretty mucheveryone who answered was not happy to see us, and someone eventhreatened to call the cops. 8 o'clock rolls around and we stillhaven't found a new investigator. Since we aren't supposed to tractpast 8 we head to the car, hoping someone will send us a referral orsomething so we could get a new investigator. Just after we back outof our spot Elder Wolverton said he felt like we should stay and Iagreed, but we decided to say a prayer just to be sure. Before theprayer though a building had caught my eye and I thought about goingto it. Elder Wolverton said the prayer and while he said it I saw thesecond floor of the building that had caught my eye and the back leftdoor, it's hard to explain but I just knew we needed to knock thatdoor. So after the prayer I said "alright let's choose one door toknock" and Elder Wolverton agreed. I pointed to the building I wantedto go to and Elder Wolverton said he was thinking the same thing, thenas we pulled up to it I said "alright second floor", he agreed again.Then I said the back left door, but he replied that he was thinkingthe front right door, so we decided to knock both (you have to knowthe layout of the buildings to understand). We knocked the front rightdoor and a Muslim guy answered, who wasn't interested. So then we wentand knocked the back left door. A lady with a green sweatshirt andblack hair that was half dyed red came out and she was super bubblyand happy to see us. She knew who we were Mormon and was from Arizona.She went on to tell us how she loved the Mormon people and thoughtthey were amazing. She expressed how she wasn't really liking theCatholic Church in Virginia. She also talked about stuff like how shedoesn't think a man has power to absolve your sins and how importantthe family is, she started tearing up a couple of times, especiallywhen we told her how we had found her. Then she told us how she hadn'tseen a Mormon in like 6 years and she was super happy to see us. Shewas so prepared!!

Now, this sounds amazing and you probably think she's getting baptizedin a few weeks right? WRONG. Unfortunaltet we have lost all contactwith her. We were able to have a second lesson which was equally asamazing as finding her but now she doesn't answer the door or returnour calls.

It's been a big struggle for me to figure out why we were led to herif she was just going to bail on us. However, everyone has theiragency, and our jobs as missionaries is just to give them the bestopportunity we can!!

I love everyone and miss all of you!! But things in Virginia alwaysmake things worth it. Have a good week y'all!!

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Elder Ethan Critchfield

Elder Critchfield is serving a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Virginia Richmond Mission. He reported to the Missionary Training Center on August 10, 2016.

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"The Holy Ghost shall be thy constant companion, and thy scepter an unchanging scepter of righteousness and truth; and thy dominion shall be an everlasting dominion, and without compulsory means it shall flow unto thee forever and ever."